A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023
''One of the summer-s most talked-about books.'' SUNDAY TIMES
-An unmissable banger that you need to preorder immediately.- ALICE SLATER
-A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.- TOM BENN
-You-ve never read anything like this.- JULIA ARMFIELD
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes?
Did you see the pictures of the body?
Did you look for them?
It-s been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time.
That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants o
